Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2a9135e203eb719…

MALICIOUS

PDF

99.2 KB Created: 2021-07-02 03:31:05 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-23
MD5: e34c709a02333bf8d5a4af936d59627f SHA-1: 5325c93a56f27a0fc330b8ddc4134b5309c7752c SHA-256: e2a9135e203eb719db13966117428457966b5e85223ef2cb431d1169684bddeb
196 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains multiple links pointing to external resources, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The ClamAV detection and ML classifier strongly indicate malicious intent, likely to deliver a secondary payload or phish for credentials.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9918

Heuristics 7

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link to algorithmically-generated URL high PDF_RANDOM_URL_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable HTTP(S) link whose host looks algorithmically generated (pronounceable-random labels) and whose path/query carries a long high-entropy token. This is the randomized-redirector pattern of malspam phishing lures — the visible document is only a prompt — not a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://biomassasia.net/data_ed/userfiles/file/xewagatimuxesim.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://www.centralperdana.com/file/53533592426.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adm.allianceflooring.net/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f9efcc53bb3aa5514736d221cc5dcb4d/busofotapazativ.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://qboardapp.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0228be7a4df79397fdf61ed1ac3879be/43833627616.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://russkiivopros.com/images/FCKeditor/file/xukiboxaledusebe.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.trimbleexpress.sk/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609f9a859be81---70284267379.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.lokalesichtbarkeit.de/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/k6ge2nbqa6ihhpmqaj4gn23h38/kalapokir.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://go2germany.ru/files/file/xasujozalalode.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://atek-ent.com/upload/file/vubosivarub.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://bleikss.com/userfiles/file/ratevubile.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608e8a0ac07e8---89030971923.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://chocoinmobiliario.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/0dede2754d40dc4becaef26c64b798f1/niferebekexefexewuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://aarogyamedico.com/userfiles/file/nafutoxerizevawota.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://ambulatorioveterinariopisillibertozzi.eu/userfiles/files/lukubezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://training-solutions.ro/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160bc15642f44f---kukotegizaluj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.gunyagder.org.tr/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/e1i09kprqq6rmuvsb5r7h5cgd5/42965027789.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.onegelha.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/f1070824ecd7b45c1e673793801d5fd8/dinidufoxowito.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.fsnn.se/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084b9107395e---jaranevepipot.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://totalyoumovement.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609bd07c8c9f3---49341788184.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://4bx.pl/public/file/70141942707.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://rydelko.pl/userfiles/file/sixufiwinisedu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/1eyvgo/aqOO/~3/1xuhb7AK25c/uplcv?utm_term=stockholm+is+in+which+countryPDF link annotation
    • https://bxthirteen.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fa76b58e3f1bde6020ebc90fc523c796/55276561082.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off000104e2.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x104E2 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00011cf9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11CF9 10668 bytes
SHA-256: 8bae0c3b9170a552dfce960170d3289e34a9fdf6520871396efbd8cfeb4e8bea
font_02_sfnt_off0001353d.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x1353D 16400 bytes
SHA-256: e7a37577ba2a30d0a21bb681a7b7576409f500daf7f552f2d697e0621792291c
font_03_sfnt_off00014bc4.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14BC4 19684 bytes
SHA-256: f8bce283635e217d77c2995b69b4c91251de87d318c34a564453a5b6d6f5f6cf